Topic: Digital responsibility
The digital transformation in all areas of life leads to ethical and legal issues when digital technologies are used for the common good, ranging from ensuring digital participation to data security.
AI and criminal law: between efficiency, trust and human responsibility
How is AI changing criminal justice? At the bidt workshop “AI and Criminal Law”, experts discussed its opportunities and limitations, exploring how trust, human judgement and responsibility can be preserved.
Debate on a social media ban: Preventive regulation, but at a European level!
A study by the bidt found that 66 percent of people in Germany support a ban on social media for children under 14. But what form of regulation can adequately address this issue?
Digital security: balancing risks, the law and regulation – DigiSem 2026 at the Weizenbaum Institute
DigiSem 2026: Four digitalisation research institutes (NifD) bring together early-career researchers in Berlin to discuss digital security.
Does AI appear fairer than it actually is? Algorithmic representation biases in the media
When AI is used to generate text and images, it can result in stereotypical representations. This article highlights what such representational biases look like and how we can respond to them.
When dataintegration becomes power: Why a digital public sector is becoming not only more efficient, but also more powerful and more dependent
The state should no longer ask citizens for information that it already has. This is a promise and a step towards a public administration that makes better use of its own information.
Interview with bidt researcher Steliyana Doseva: What can be done to combat online hate?
bidt researcher Steliyana Doseva explains why online hate silences people, which measures are effective, and what role platforms, politics and society play in this.
For fair competition: the bidt research project on the regulation of digital markets
Through independent research carried out in Bavaria, the bidt’s RESREG project is helping to regulate digital markets more fairly. In this interview, Jan Krämer and Leonie Ott explain why interoperability plays a key role…
A review of the 20th International For..Net Symposium
Under the theme “Project 20/42”, the 20th International For..Net Symposium looked ahead to the future, exploring ideas for a sovereign, just, and digitally enabled constitutional state.